NASCAR MOBILE 4+

I don’t know what the deal is, but I’ve been a premium subscriber for several years and the app has always worked well and even improved over time. However for some reason this year, the “Live” feature & race center (premium) doesn’t display. Couldn’t listen to the scanner, called in (after going trough several hoops just to find a contact number) and they said to uninstall/reinstall app, which I did, then it finally worked. But this weekend same thing again, doesn’t work. Maybe I’ll just reinstall and forget about it all together and save the $30 next season as I’m sure there will be no refund for this year. If the developer really does care and read this - What’s the dealio bud?

NASCAR had an amazing app called RaceView but got rid of it at the end of the 2019 season. Now we are stuck with this lame excuse of a virtual crew chief type experience. We used to have a complete real time experience of time off leader, speed, throttle/brake usage, how much wheel they were putting in and an animated version of the cars going around the track. Now we have an app that hardly gives the race fan any information. Stats are limited to once a lap if you are lucky, sometimes you have to wait 2-3 laps. They do have in car cameras which is cool for the few times your favorite driver has one. Last season they also had a battle cam that gave you live broadcast of action on the race track but these last 2 races they have removed it for some reason. At lease we still have the in car audio to know what’s going with your driver but that’s about all this app is good for. Wish NASCAR allowed their fans to have a voice and improved the racing experience instead of constantly taking away features.

I live in New Jersey a few miles from where NASCAR Driver Martin Truex, Jr is from. I actually had a NASCAR “License” and drove cars at the Wake County (NC) Speedway back when I was at N C State back in the 60s.

When I was a teenager, we all went to Atco Speedway and ran our family cars in the drags. Every once in a while the TV of the day would replay a taped REAL NASCAR race and it was always exciting. Some drivers drove convertibles without roll cages. Many of my friends tease me even today about my penchant of watching NASCAR races but for many of these races, I can feel what the drivers feel and even get into the clutch play and imagining shifting and find that when the broadcast has an in car video and audio live that imagining the rpm changes that come with shifts jive with my own. It is far better than a video game.

I think that your booth story tellers should include more from Danica Patrick, who does wonderful technical discussion of details of the cars, especially about the latest NASCAR race cars, and she is adept at explaining what works and why as well as what does not work and why.

Viewers get a deeper dose of that when Dale Earnhardt, Jr is part of the broadcast. The two of them should part of every my skit NASCAR race.

Thanks for listening.

Capt Lindsay Fuller